CURSES

Who Is Brave Enough to Be Commerce Secretary?

You may not have noticed, but we haven't had an official Commerce Department secretary since June. That was when then-Secretary John Bryson had a car accident after suffering what has been described as a series of seizures, prompting his resignation.

But Bryson wasn't the only Commerce secretary to leave the department under unhappy circumstances. He wasn't even the only one during President Obama's first term. For the superstitious among us, the decades old run of bad luck at the Commerce Department could qualify as a full-on curse.